The History of Media and Communication

"Strictly speaking," James Carey wrote, "there is no history of mass communication research." This volume is a long-overdue response to Carey's comment about the field's ignorance of its own past. The collection includes essays of historiographical self-s

Foreword
Introduction	p. 1
State of the Historiography
Remembering the Straw Man: The Travels and Adventures of Hypodermic	p. 19
The New History of Mass Communication Research	p. 43
Walter Lippmann, Straw Man of Communication Research	p. 71
Feminist Historiography and the Field: Writing New Histories	p. 113
Institutional Histories
Institutional Opportunities for Intellectual History in Communication Studies	p. 143
"Communication": From Concept to Field to Discipline	p. 163
Opportunity Structures and the Creation of Knowledge: Paul Lazarsfeld and the Politics of Research	p. 179
How Does a Discipline Become Institutionalized?	p. 205
Institutional Networking: The Story of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR)	p. 225
People and Places in the History ofthe Field
TheTwo-Step Flow vs. The Lonely Crowd Conformity and the Media in the 1950s	p. 251
Making Sense of Social Change: Studying Media and Culture in 1960s Britain	p. 269
Writing Figures into the Field: William McPhee and the Parts Played by People in Our Histories of Media Research	p. 291
Media Research 1900-1945: Topics and Conversations	p. 321
From Park to Cressey: Chicago Sociology's Engagement with Media and Mass Culture	p. 345
Appendix	p. 363
Contributors	p. 373
Index	p. 377
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The History of Media and Communication Research: Contested Memories

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